Claudia Wegener asks passers-by in the city of Johannesburg to read
sentences from Nelson Mandela’s biography ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ (the
abridged edition!) but translated on the spot into their own mother
tongue. With eleven official languages in South Africa alone, the
outcome is a poly-lingual collage.
This show for radia was prepared as an ‘in vitro’ experiment for a
taxi-choreographic acoustic spectacle, a chorus dance of Joburg’s ‘black
taxis’ in Mandela Square (Sandton) and Freedom Square (Kliptown).